Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> writes:
> Le lundi, 20 octobre 2014, 14.14:58 Joey Hess a écrit :
>> The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and
>> decided:
>>> For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to
>>> support the multiple available init systems in Debian. That
>>> includes merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting
>>> existing support without a compelling reason.
>> http://bugs.debian.org/746715
> I didn't understand this as a technically binding ruling, rather as a
> forewarning to maintainers, from the TC; this is underlined by the "the
> TC expects" rather than explicitly using one of the TC powers (§6.1).
When voting on this, I understood it to fall under the TC's authority to
issue technical advice to the project, not under any of the TC
decision-making powers.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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